Dreyer’s assistant, Katrina Murphy, says he’s “going way faster than expected” and on track to arrive by early afternoon.

The barge carries a Lincoln MKC loaded with fudge, a well-known Mackinac Island product. The swim from St. Ignace was organized to draw attention to the 2015 Mighty Mac Swim, a planned crossing of the Straits of Mackinac on Labor Day.